This week our class went exploring. Our first task was to create a chart.
Below is the chart that I created:

I got the statistics from Gallup Poll on President Obama’s approval among voters. While originally I thought this would be easy, however it was not. I’ve done charts in the past for classes, however this was using Microsoft Excel instead of Google Chart maker. I thought the whole process confusing and not user friendly. I entered the correct information, but the chart wasn’t aligning with what I put in. I am hoping that Google fixes these kinks because I think the average user would find this very confusing.

The next step was to create a basic map.
This was also very complicated. I had a difficult time using the tools as well as drawing the straight line. However, I was able to make a map from Manassas to President’s Park, an often confusing location for many visitors of the campus to get to.

View How to get to President’s Park in a larger map

Overall, I found all of these exercises very confusing to follow through on. There didn’t seem to be a very simple way to teach someone to use these tools adequately.